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Hack the Moon tells the remarkable story of the engineers behind the revolutionary technologies developed for the Apollo missions. Explore newly released photos, videos and stories about the unsung heroes behind the moon landing. In the face of epic challenges, and with a fraction of today’s technology these are the people who hacked the moon.

Margaret Hamilton's pioneering work in software development has left a lasting impact on our world. Her ingenuity and resourcefulness continue to inspire countless young minds today. #MargaretHamilton #SoftwareDevelopment #STEM #historyaccordingtoai

Without question, The Wizard of Oz has obtained status as a film icon ever since it was released in 1939. The film's influence on contemporary popular

By relentlessly rooting out errors, the original software engineer helped send astronauts to the moon.

Hamilton created the basic concept of modern-day software and her programming was so successful and effective that it was just as important as the astronauts aboard the spacecraft itself. After getting her degree in mathematics she is considered to be the first software engineer, a term which she created. Despite her role being one of the most important in the entire apollo mission, she was not credited as much as she should have been. Before she worked for NASA, she programmed software for…

Margaret Hamilton is credited with having coined the term software engineering while developing the guidance and navigation system for the Apollo spacecraft.

Margaret Hamilton was the engineer who wrote the code that took humanity to the Moon.

Margaret Hamilton has a long list of accomplishments. She is a computer scientist, a systems engineer, and even a business owner. She's also the woman who got man to the Moon.

1929 - Actress MARGARET HAMILTON was born on December 9, 1902. Many years after Ms. Hamilton’s iconic portrayal of the Wicked Witch in “The Wizard of Oz” in 1939 ..her line “I’ll get you my pretty and your little dog, too!” was ranked 99th in the 2005 American Film Institute Survey of the most famous movie quotes. Her son, HAMILTON MESERVE, stated “She enjoyed the line so much, she sometimes would use it in her real life”. - America In The 1920s

Margaret Hamilton standing by the code that she wrote by hand to take humanity to the moon in 1969

Half a century ago, MIT played a critical role in the development of the flight software for NASA’s Apollo program, which landed humans on t...

Join the Friends of the Southport Historical Society on June 10 at 7 p.m. in the Southport Town Hall for the group’s 2019 annual meeting. Following a brief business meeting, the program will feature a talk by Hamilton Meserve about his mother, actress Margaret Hamilton who is probably best known for her role as the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 movie, “The Wizard of Oz.” But Margaret Hamilton’s professional career actually included 79 other films, Broadway performances and work in…

Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead software engineer for the Apollo Program, stands next to the code she wrote by hand that led to the moon landings in 1969⠀

If you were to create a short list of women who influenced software engineering, one of the first picks would be Margaret Hamilton. The Apollo 11 source code lists her title as “PROGRAMMING LEADER”…